Strive for Science

"Please, may I ask, where is this?"

"Comrade..."

"Squad leader, no one cares about us?"

The five young men stood blankly on the street, tightly wrapping their shabby coats. Seeing a girl approaching in leg socks, they quickly looked away, their cheeks flushed with embarrassment.

"I heard from the storyteller in the town before that someone would come to a place isolated from the world by chance." The squad leader touched the pistol jacket at his waist. Although it was just a shell without a gun, it had this shell Now, he will be more at ease in his heart, "Could it be that people from here don't understand what we are talking about?"

Their squad all came from Sichuan to fight the enemy on the front line. The officer told them that because of lack of resources, each squad was only equipped with one gun, and the uniforms were a bit worn out.

However, the country is in a critical moment, and there is no way to deal with the difficult conditions.In just one month of war, several comrades in their class died under enemy fire, leaving only five of them.The gun assigned to their squad had been lost in the artillery fire.

In the evening, they received an order from the company commander to plant landmines on the road that the enemy must pass.Landmines are a rare item in the company. If it wasn't for cutting off the enemy's ammunition and food supplies, the company commander would not be willing to waste such a good thing.

"Squad leader, our landmines..." Only then did the young people realize that the landmines they were guarding as their lifelines were gone.

"I clearly remember that by crossing that small river, you can reach the road that the enemy must pass. Why..." The young man who said this was probably only fifteen or sixteen years old. It is better to say he is a teenager than a young man.

He was very thin and thin, but his head was big and round.She wore brand new straw sandals on her feet, but they didn't fit well.This was made by an elder brother in the company who saw that he had no shoes and passed by a village. He asked a fellow villager for a few handfuls of grain and grass, and made it for him overnight.

On the day he just put on the new straw sandals, he followed the squad leader on a mission. Unexpectedly, he came to a novel place out of nowhere. He was a little scared when he was still young.

"Don't panic." The squad leader looked the most mature, but in fact he was only in his early twenties. He said sharply: "The situation is not right, you are so panicked when you encounter troubles, what if the enemy comes? You panic, What about the common people behind us, and what about the mothers and fathers at the head of your house? Let me tie them up, whoever dares to mess up, I will deal with him when I go back."

Even though he said so, the squad leader himself was not at ease. He remembered very clearly that when he was crossing the small bridge by the river, he carefully checked the mines he was carrying. When he came back to his senses, he stood here.

I don't know what kind of place this is, the place is so open and bright, that bright thing... is it the electric light mentioned on the radio?The electric lights in big cities are so bright that they are hung outside the house. What if the enemy breaks in and blows them up to pieces?

What a pity.

Did they really come to another world?

The girl just now had yellow skin and black eyes, but she had red hair. Could this be the child of a Chinese married to a foreigner?

He glanced at the four comrades who looked flustered, took a deep breath, and mustered up the courage to walk towards the two young women who were walking towards them and said, "Two girls, may I ask..."

The two girls ignored him and ran straight towards him, scaring the squad leader to hide away.He is a big man, so he can't just take advantage of young girls.

Being ignored as a transparent person made the squad leader a little embarrassed, but now he is the leader of the five and must stand up.His eyes flashed across the crowd, and he saw a young man pushing a man towards him.

"Little comrade, may I ask... where is this place?" The squad leader took another deep breath, ready to be ignored.

Unexpectedly, the other party stopped, and his clear eyes met his gaze: "Hello?"

Shen Chang'an looked at the young man in front of him. He was wearing yellow and shabby clothes. There was no belt around his waist, and he was tied casually with a few grains of straw. His trouser legs were cut short, exposing his ankles that were bruised and purple from the cold.

The feet in the straw sandals were deformed from the cold, and even festered.

"Here..." Shen Changan tilted his head and looked at the four thin and short teenagers behind the young man. These four teenagers were just like the young man in a mess, without even a pair of cloth shoes. Behind him, there were surprise and uneasiness in the four pairs of eyes.

Shen Chang'an suddenly understood something, he felt hot steam rising from his throat, he blinked his eyes several times before suppressing the soreness in his throat, "Where do you come from?"

"You can understand us, that's great." The squad leader was a little excited, "Do you know how far Tengzhou is from here?"

"Tengzhou is more than 700 kilometers away from here."

"More than 700 kilometers?!" The 14-year-old soldier was surprised, "Squad leader, we smashed and walked more than 700 kilometers in one night, what happened, how can we go back now?"

"You want to go back?" Shen Changan looked at their bleeding and festering feet, his throat rolling, "There is no war here, so there is no need to go back."

"Which one will work?" Xiaobing tied the loose straw around his waist tightly, "Go back early and drive the enemy out, so that we can rest assured. When we left, my mother told me, wait for me After beating the enemies and going back, she will make me oil residue noodles."

"Little comrade, can you tell us how to get back to Tengzhou from here?" The squad leader was a little anxious. Their task was arduous. If the enemy broke into the rear, I don't know how many ordinary people would suffer.

"Don't worry, the battle in Tengzhou has already been won." Shen Changan's eyes turned red, "Not only the battle in Tengzhou has been won, but the battle in our entire country has also been won."

"The enemy... was beaten away?" Xiao Bing looked at Shen Chang'an blankly, "Are you lying to us?"

"I didn't lie to you." Shen Changan pointed to the front, "Here is the capital of our New China."

"New Huaxia..." Xiaobing looked at the well-dressed passers-by around him, unable to recover for a long time, "The war...is it won?"

"Yes, we won." Shen Changan knew that his words and deeds at the moment might be very neurotic in the eyes of Dao Nian and the others, but facing these five young people younger than him, he couldn't pretend that he didn't see them .

"Then, are those people in Tengzhou all right?"

Shen Changan nodded.

"Then what about our Shu Province?"

Shen Changan nodded heavily.

"Great." Xiao Bing showed a childish smile, "Then my old mother and younger brothers and sisters must be safe too."

Shen Changan followed with a smile: "Yes, that's great."

"Then let's find the company commander to return to the team, and then go back to eat the oil residue noodles made by my mother." Xiaobing jumped up happily, "Squad leader, Lao Gen, Zhu Er, Brother Qiang, you all go to my house , I invite you to eat noodles."

"You...you can leave after watching the flag raising." Shen Changan was silent for a moment, "After the enemy was repelled, our country has become better and better."

"Squad leader..." Xiao Bing looked at the squad leader, and it was obvious that he wanted to watch the national flag raising.

"Okay." The squad leader was also a little moved, he nodded, "Little comrade, I'm sorry to trouble you."

"No trouble." Shen Chang'an looked down at Daonian, and Daonian also looked up at him, the corners of his lips twitched, and he bent down to whisper in his ear, "Dao Nian, let's talk about it when we go back, okay?"

Dao Nian nodded silently.

"Is your friend's leg also injured by the enemy?" Xiao Bing secretly glanced at Dao Nian who was sitting in a wheelchair, "But the chair he is sitting on is really good, it would be great if the old company commander could also use it. "

The old company commander was sent to the rear after his legs were blown off by the enemy's artillery fire, and he didn't know if he saved his life.

"Dongwa!" The squad leader snapped, "Shut up."

The little soldier named Dongwa quickly shut up, and apologized softly to Shen Changan, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't bring up such sad things."

"It's okay." Shen Changan shook his head slowly, "I also hope that your company commander will use a wheelchair later."

They followed the flow of people to the outside of the square. There were already many people in thick coats standing outside. Shen Changan looked at the straw sandals on the feet of the five people and silently moved his eyes away.

"How long will the sky be bright?" Xiao Bing's personality was a little out of character. After being quiet for an hour, he began to ask around Shen Chang'an again, "These people whose hair color is not black, aren't we Chinese?"

"Some are foreigners, but most of them are Chinese." Shen Changan carefully explained to him, "It's just a kind of potion to dye the hair in other colors."

"Is there such a powerful thing?" Xiao Bing touched his head and said with a smile, "It looks a little nice."

The squad leader silently looked at everything around him, with more and more doubts in his heart, but seeing Dongwa happily talking to that well-dressed little comrade, he would bother him if he wasn't good.

Time passed a little bit, and when the day was about to dawn, the flag-raising ceremony began.

The five looked into the distance on their tiptoes, and they were stunned when they saw those soldiers in neat uniforms, walking at the same pace, wearing white gloves and leather boots, coming out holding the national flag.

When the soundtrack sounded and the red flag was raised slowly, they found that the crowd around them were singing something silently. Xiao Bing asked Shen Changan: "What are they singing?"

"National anthem." Shen Chang'an said, "A song that everyone in our country can sing."

"That's great." Xiao Bing said with a smile, "I will learn to sing after I go back."

When the red flag fluttered to the top of the flagpole, there was applause at the scene, and the squad leader looked around blankly. Everyone here was wearing beautiful and thick clothes, and everyone had a relaxed smile.

He saw that there were old people and children inside, and the shoes on their feet looked extremely warm.

When the first rays of the sun rose, he suddenly remembered.

They didn't lose the mines, but after the mines exploded, they died together with the enemies who were about to flee.

It's just...he forgot.

They are already dead.

The sun shone on his young face, as if it had dyed his whole body with a layer of light.

"What year is it now?"

"2018."

"Was the war really won?"

"We're all victorious." Shen Changan nodded, "Everyone has clothes to wear and food to eat, so we don't have to worry about the enemy's artillery fire falling from the sky."

"That's great." The squad leader grinned, "An Yi."

"Thank you." Shen Changan bowed to the five of them.

"Then... we should go back."

"Where are you going back?" Xiao Bing asked, "Go and report to the company commander?"

"No, go back to Shu Province, let's go back together." The squad leader said, "There are still people waiting for us to go back there."

The author has something to say: The soul of a hero returns to his hometown.